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CAR-STEP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application led January 23, 1906. Serial No, 297.434.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DELBERT A. FAUT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Steps, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention constitutes an improvement upon the shiftable car-step shown 1n my allowed application, Serial No, 245,214, iiled February 11, 1905 g and my primary object is to provide a simple and easily-operated shiftable car-step of durable construction, whereby the step at one side of the car may be projected and the step at the other side thereof retracted for reasons which will be obvious to those skilled in the art.

The invention is illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure l represents a broken view of the substructure of a car with my improvement applied thereto, the substructure being indicated in the main by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a broken side elevational view of the same, the substructure of the car-body being shown in full lines; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section taken as indicated at line 3 of Fig. 1, one of the combination guides and supports for the sliding frame which carries the car-steps being shown in section, however; and Fig. 4, a broken sectional view showing a valve employed for controlling the admission and eX- haust to the, cylinder which operates the frame carrying the car-steps. i

In the construction illustrated, A represents the substructure of a car-body having the usual dash or end guard A applied thereto; B a transversely-slidable frame mounted `in guides B, connected with beams B2, which may constitute either a portion of the regular substructure of the car or may be provided for the special purpose of sustaining themembers B; B3 B4, steps rigidly carried by the ends of the frame B; B5, an intermediate cross-bar constituting a portion of the frame B; C, a horizontally-disposed transverselyextending cylinder located in the plane ofthe frame B and provided with a piston C', having a stem C2 rigidly joined to the cross-bar B5 of the frame B 5 D, the usual service-pipe of a car, which connects with an air-tank (not shown) and which is equipped adjacent toL the upper central portion of the guard A with a valve D', controlling the car-brakes in a well-understood manner, and D2 a branch pipe connected with the pipe D and equipped with a valve, from which lead pipes D4 D5, communicating with the ends of the cylinder C. The cock d of the valve D3 is provided with passages d d2, and the valve is provided with an exhaust-passage cl3. The cock may be turned to connect the pipe D2 with either of the pipes DL1 D5. When the pipe D2 is connected with either of the pipes D* D5, the other of said pipes will be connected with the exhaust-passageJ d3.

Ther details of construction of the frame B and its supports are unimportant for the purpose of the present application. It is suflicient to say that the frame B is free to move longitudinally within certain limits, the arrangement being such that when the step B3 is sheathed the step BAk will be projected, and vice versa. Assuming the pipe D to be in connection with the source of compressed air, the steps may be actuated at will by turning the manually-controlled cock b of the valve D3 in the appropriate direction. It is to be understood that ordinarily the mechanism shown in the drawings is duplicated at each end of the car, the pair of steps at each end of the car being provided withindependent actuating mechanism of the character shown and described herein.

The y construction illustrated is simple, cheap, durable, and easily operated.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a car-body having a chamber for the operator, of a transversely-slidable frame, a step fixedly mounted upon each end thereof, one of said steps being normally sheathed and the other normally projected, a-cylinder equipped with a piston connected with said slidable frame, a valve supported at a point accessible to the operator in said chamber, a service-pipe connected with said valve, pipes leading from said valve to the opposite ends of said cylinder, and an exhaust-passage for the valve, said valve operating to connect the servicepipe with either one of the pipes leading to said cylinder and-to connect the other one of said pipes with the external atmosphere, for the purpose set forth.

2, The combination of a car-body, of a transversely-slidable frame located beneath the body, a step iixedly mounted upon each end thereof, one of said steps'being normally sheathed and the other normally projected, a transversely-disposed cylinder located in the IOO IIO

plane of said frame and having a piston Conthe other of the Cylinder-pipes With the eX- nected With said frame, pipes leading te ophaustr-passage of the valve, for the purpose poste ends of said cylinder, a servieelpp@ set forth.

and a valve connected with said pipes and DELBERT A. FAUT. 5 having an exhaust-passage, and having also In presence ofa @ook with Ways for connecting the servce- L. HEISLAR,

.pipe with either one of the cylinder-pipes and J; H. LANDES. 

